To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised – they don’t see you behind closed doors.
NICOLE KIDMANI’m a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
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I’ll put it out there: I love getting hugs.
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I’m willing to fly close to the flame.
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I love acting but I don’t like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.
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I like exploring life and its complexities.
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I’m interested in going places that I haven’t been. And I’m interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.
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I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
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Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it’s a beautiful life.
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People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we’re all going to die, so how do you want to live?
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It’s my job as an actor to commit to the role and not – through my own inhibitions – run away.
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~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
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There’s something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There’s something very there’s safety in that.
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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That’s where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.
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Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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In my heart I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
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